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Students across the country and the globe walked out of school Wednesday to demand action on gun violence and to honor the 17 people killed in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida. From campuses battling snowstorms to schools that have seen...

Students hoisted "Stand United" signs. They chanted "''Hey, hey, ho, ho - the NRA has got to go" outside the White House. Others read the names of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High victims aloud in a somber tribute. These scenes played out across the country as students put down...

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence (all times local): 10:45 a.m. Amid a nationwide school walkout, students at the school where a gunman killed 17 people gathered on the campus football field one month after the shooting to...

The three military fathers sat at the commander's conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help. They told the commander that their daughters were among a half-dozen girls sexually assaulted by a boy in their first-grade class at the base school. The...

HONOLULU (AP) — Zhou Qingjiang was toiling in a factory in China's rust belt when he decided to pack his bags for America. A recruiter guaranteed a job that paid $3,000 a month — more than triple the average wage in China — as long as Zhou forked over thousands of dollars for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking's cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers. Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on Wednesday at age 76, became the public face of science genius. He appeared on "Star Trek:...

The military fathers sat at the commander's conference table, pleading for help, after their daughters told them they'd been sexually assaulted by a boy in their first-grade class at the U.S. Army base school in Germany. Thousands of children live and attend school on U.S...

DENVER (AP) — It opens with a warning: This video contains footage from real police body cameras. Viewer discretion is advised. Then, an introduction: "I would like you to hear from me, what happened," Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock says, facing the camera. The next eight...

STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — The professor scrawls "macho," ''brave" and "strong" on a crowded blackboard, apt words for someone whose book titles are littered with "masculinity" and "manhood." He's spent three decades building a nascent corner of academia, presenting himself as a...